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On October 30, the SEC voted 3-1 to adopt final rules to permit eligible companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding—a relatively new and evolving Internet-based method ...
In a speech focused on executive compensation disclosure, Keith Higgins raised a number of possible rule changes that he believes could make executive compensation more useful to investor...
On October 30, the SEC voted 3-1 to propose amendments to Securities Act Rule 147 and Rule 504 of Regulation D. The proposed rule amendments are intended to modernize and expand the capit...
On Friday, November 13, NYU Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement hosted a roundtable discussion featuring the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Fraud Chief An...
CalPERS is considering changing its proxy voting policies to account for issues of director tenure. New language in its governance principles could state that director independence may b...
Glass Lewis updated its voting guidelines that apply to the 2016 proxy season. There are limited revisions from the prior policies, which include:
Overboarding. Beginning in 2017, Glass L...
In preparing for the upcoming proxy season, it is helpful to examine the information that investors provide about their most recent voting and engagement efforts. We start with Vanguard....
The U.S. banking regulators’ have adopted final uncleared swap margin, capital and segregation requirements and an interim final margin rule with limited exemptions. We have summarized ...
Following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum analyzing the Federal Reserve’s proposed rule on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) and eligible long-term debt (LTD) requirements for (i...
A global trade association of 64 stock exchanges, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFG), has recommended that its member exchanges voluntarily incorporate a set of 34 ESG factors into l...